There's death threats, and then there's death threats.

Hey, kids! Apparently, the perky, new talking point running around Lower Wankeropolis is how Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs received -- get this -- a death threat! Yes sir, a real, live, Honest to God death threat which ... which ... um, hang on, what exactly did that "death threat" say again?

The message, sent from a Reuters internet account, read: "I look forward to the day when you pigs get your throats cut."

Ah. So, technically, per se, it wasn't really a "death threat" in that it didn't actually, you know, literally "threaten" "death," as it were. It was, in fact, simply an opinion that someone hopes something really, really bad would happen to Chuck. Sort of along the lines of, personally, I look forward to the day when Dick Cheney suffocates on the bones of the live kittens he keeps biting the heads off of, that sort of thing.

You want a death threat? I mean, a real death threat? Here, try this one on for size:

Natalie Maines says one of the death threats she received after criticizing President Bush three years ago was "definitely scary" because the sender "had a plan." ...

"It was definitely scary because it seemed so -- it wasn't just somebody wanting to write a hate letter," she says. "It was somebody who obviously thought they had a plan."

Emily Robison, who plays banjo and guitar in the Texas trio, says, "There was one specific death threat on Natalie. (It) had a time, had a place, had a weapon. I mean, everything. ...`You will be shot dead at your show in Dallas.'"

See? Now that's a death threat. I'd ask where all your outrage was back then but, really, I'm not that idiotically naive.

P.S. I'm assuming that right-wing screech harpy Ann Coulter had the forethought not to get too shrill over this. The irony would be just too much to handle.